Shorts Block 1: Future Voices

TWO BREATHS

USA | 17 minutes | Kateryna Kurganska

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely friend. 

NGAU KAHUA

Chile | 3 minutes | Loreto Vaikapua Gómez Campos, Catalina Baltazar, Macarena Mathias

After feeling homesick for Rapa Nui, Tai immerses himself in virtual reality to relive his childhood on the Island. After remembering that nothing is actually real, he decides to leave the simulation and focus on the present.

SINA MA TINIRAU

Fiji |  9 minutes | Vilsoni Tausie Hereniko

When a prince is cursed to become an eel and has to win the love of a beautiful woman to become human again, he gifts her with his body in the form of a coconut palm tree in a seductive display. 

DUSK

USA | 9 minutes | Pono Wong 

This cutting-edge experimental multi-media short film tells the tragic story of an orphan teen struggling to care for his younger brother. 

OLA

USA | 4 minutes | Marcus Goh

A Hawaiian teen navigates life and reflects on what his kūpuna has done for him.

KAI HALI’A (SEA OF MEMORY)

USA | 9 minutes | Angelique Kalani Axelrode

In a realm of abstracted and embodied memory, a diasporic Kanaka traces a genealogy of identity through kūpuna (ancestors), ‘āina (land), and ke kai (ocean).